Lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place.
1 A number of cases have involved civil servants who mislaid sensitive information.
2 In the course of his long wanderings it had unfortunately been mislaid .
3 We pretend that Uncle Boaz has mislaid the key of the wine-cellar.
4 The MS. was not printed in his time, but mislaid or forgotten.
5 The former imperiousness has not just been mislaid , it has been rejected.
6 Fulcher mislaid , his passport and Hurley travelled to London without his passport.
7 It suggested that she customarily mislaid it, and recaptured only an echo.
8 She mislaid him Saturday afternoon-andfor a long time suffered no inconvenience.
9 I meant them for your Christmas last year, but they were mislaid .
10 Rulers mislaid or misspent unimaginable sums, running deficits that outran her comprehension.
11 There's no time to hunt for mislaid hats when the whistle goes.
12 She was dreadful careless with her husbands and had mislaid 'em all.
13 It's a good deal like those plans of mine that got mislaid .
14 My electric apparatus is out of order, and I've mislaid my matches.
15 When you just reported Dracula's words, you said the Voivode ' mislaid you.' Where?
16 Two circumstances in particular recalled my recollection of the mislaid manuscript.
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